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‘At a time when societies are becoming more multicultural, where traditions, histories, and texts commingle, and interlace, a quest for unalloyed pure native roots could prove to be not only elusive but also dangerous.’

‘For both Ruskin and Eliot, the hoarder is a grotesque creature, whose great economic mistake-the insistence on the unalloyed benefit of saving-is Victorian received wisdom taken to an extreme.’

‘Ironically, it is Spiro's unalloyed internationalism, not the New Sovereigntism, that is likely to foster U.S. rejection of international law.’

‘Further, the anxious call to adore the genius of a single artist lets this book tumble into the unalloyed hero-worship that is so frequently the pitfall of monographical studies.’

‘Overall, the American triumph was not unalloyed.’

‘The only Mexican president who earns his unalloyed praise is Lázaro Cárdenas, who held office from 1934 to 1940 and nationalized the oil industry.’

‘For pure, unalloyed managerial anger, not manufactured, we need look no further than Graeme Souness.’

‘Paik somehow creates a population without an anecdotal center, with the voices and all other sounds so naturally, easily, visibly absent as to yield an unalloyed and relaxed attention.’

‘Republican pedigrees rarely come more unalloyed than his.’

‘In short, the government has met with such unalloyed success selling its hard line to an anxious electorate that it has rarely needed to invoke the spectre of absconding.’

‘Was it possible to find happiness in its pure state, unalloyed by sorrow?’

‘I think he has a Napoleonic concept of himself and his company, an arrogance that derives from power and unalloyed success, with no leavening hard experience, no reverses.’

‘Today, Labour is the preferred party of big business because of its abandonment of its old reformist programme and its unalloyed commitment to the self-enrichment of a privileged elite.’

‘And the economy moved from a mixture of cotton planting and subsistence farming to the unalloyed growing, buying, and selling of cotton.’

‘I would like to say a word on behalf of Idleness - pure, unadulterated indolence, unalloyed by even the slightest tinge of Purpose or Usefulness.’

‘Overall, the budget proposal appears to be unalloyed good news for the transportation construction industry.’

‘And yet… Let's just say that I'm not a generous-hearted enough human being to be capable of unalloyed gratitude, given what happened toward the end of the build.’

‘He is the individual many of us would like to be if we could only shake off our obligations and responsibilities to others, if we could only act on the unalloyed imperatives of our notably selfish genes.’

‘The theme is pure, unalloyed loving devotion to Krishna.’

‘When the Soviet system collapsed, the American people, far from enjoying an unalloyed sense of triumph, were experiencing their own crisis of confidence.’

‘NAFTA's authors had assumed that eliminating restrictions on the movement of capital and goods would, by dint of the market's magic, lead to unalloyed prosperity.’

‘By the time environmentalism became a political force in the 1970s, dams were no longer considered an unalloyed public good.’

‘Parish schools - and by this I mean the thousands of elementary schools administered by churches across the country - remain in many eyes an unalloyed good.’